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I'll start off with some ants today. I'm not sure, but guessing ghost ants. They seem different than the ghost ants I normally see around here. As a super cool bonus though, there was a leucistic girl running around with them. I've not come across this in ants before. Is this common?
#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Formicidae #Ants #Insects #Arthropods
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Thomas Shahan took a photo of a Crematogaster ant that everyone should go check out.
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Citrus snack time. These Ghost ants were doing something I've never seen before. This unknown citrus tree has several leaf buds just starting to elongate and they were clustering around these elongated bud tips. I don't know if they were actively chewing or just collecting phloem at damaged areas.
#Nature #Photography #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Tapinoma #melanocephalum #Citrus #Macro #SriLanka
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Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.
#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae
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I found this winged queen surrounded by dozens of workers at the base of a tree. I wish I would have stayed and watched how this played out. Some workers were threatening while others seemed to be feeding her. After one ant nipped at her, another nipped at that ant. Did the established colony take in this young queen? When I returned a short time later, they were gone? So many questions...
#Formicidae #SriLanka #Ants #Insects #InsectInteraction #Oecophylla #smaragdina #Photography #Nature
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The retractable antennae of Mycetophylax fungus-farming ants leave such a distinct scrobe on the head. Photo from a few years ago from Mindo, Ecuador.
This is possibly an undescribed species. Too many ants, not enough taxonomists. #Ants #Insects #Formicidae #Mycetophylax
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Since its what mastadon seems to care about, here's an ant. I thought it was a destroyer ant when I was taking its picture, but it is actually a sneaking ant which is closely related. Please correct me if I'm wrong on the ID. This one was on a guava leaf. My flash is dying so I can't get consistent enough light to stack and I've reverted to my thinner diffuser... Taken at ~1:3.5x
#Nature #Photography #Macro #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Myrmicine #Cardiocondyla #SriLanka
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Spring in #SriLanka brings one of my biggest joys of the island. May I present to you the weaver ants. First, we have a huge queen. Many have green gasters, but this one is solid orange. She has a good start to her brood. These will eventually be her workers that will build her a nest and feed her. You will often find a few founding queens together on one leaf. One of the few species I know of that seem to do better with multiple queens.
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The big #anthill I pass on my lunchtime walks is coming to life! (for size reference, the hill is somewhere between 4 and 5 feet tall.
I don't check it daily so it's possible that I'm late to catch on, but this was the first time all winter I've seen activity on the hill. They're moving slowly, presumably to conserve energy.
A good lesson, that: Move slowly. Conserve energy.
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Hercules Carpenter Ant (Camponotus herculeanus)
#Ant #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Formicidae #Ants #Insect #Insects #InsectPhotography #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand.
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
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Anyway here's the ant nuptial flights I found. The workers are tiny, like, 1mm or something. I think they are the same species? They resemble citronella ants, but much smaller and not as yellow. *Lasius*? *Brachymyrmex*?
I did also see another kind of alate so multiple species are likely having mating flights right now.
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Peanut Butter (that's what I've decided to call the _Platycryptus undatus_ who lives down the street) nabbed herself a female ant alate! I also saw more female alates in other spiders' webs, and a few that had gotten into the grocery store somehow.
Northeastern North Americans/ant people in general: anyone know which ants' nuptial flight time it is? Those yellow _Lasius_ maybe? The males (in my window orbweaver's web) seem yellow.
#DailySpiderPic #spiders #JumpingSpiders #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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This oughta really wind up the wingnuts.
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring1,2. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism3 that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning4,5, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."
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Here is another ant. I still haven't gotten clarification on how the common names are applied to this group. I learned them as valentine ants, but it seems like most call them acrobat ants and yet others call them cocktail ants. If you know something about how or when to apply these common names, please let me know.
#Formicidae #Crematogaster #Ants #Insects #Nature #Photography #Oklahoma
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So for months I thought this was a tire track, but today I noticed it goes from one bush to another, which is atypical of tire tracks. Took a closer look and sure enough... it's an ant highway. Either end points toward a large (3-4 feet tall) nest.
I didn't know they did that. I guess the tiny missteps of so many ants had gradually scuffed marks through the gravel, leaving a clear trail through the thin grass growing amongst it. Wild.
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Ran into a tiny commuter during today's walk. Just a blue collar guy trying to bring home the bacon. It's easy to lose sight of the scope of things, sometimes.
Be kind, fellow humans.
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It has been a while... so have some ants!
I believe these are Red Harvester Ants taken near Lake Hefner in Oklahoma
#Ants #Insects #Pogonomyrmex #barbatus #Oklahoma #Formicidae #Photography #Nature #Harvester
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A Common Oriental Trap-jaw Ant (Odontomachus simillimus) spotted at the Golf Link track in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Singapore on 8 Feb 2025. I wouldn't want to be caught between those menacing looking jaws.
Those jaws are held open by an internal latch and can snap shut when sensory hairs on the jaws are touched.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260984607 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae
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This #log crosses my #walking path; every time I step over it I wonder about these #ants. Best I can tell is that it's some kind of superhighway for the little dudes.
I've looked for an obvious nest on either end of the log, but they both disappear into salal growths. The log is probably 40 feet across, altogether. Quite the commute for an #ant.
#nature #awalkaday #arthropods #insects #formicidae #ThickTrunkTuesday
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Another cool find in my garden today: the weirdest looking ant I've ever found.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/286181482
A new species for me, and a new species record for my garden, now at 13 Ants, 149 Hymenoptera, and 514 Insect species/taxa.
cc: @futurebird
#iNaturalist #Ants #Formicidae #Hymenoptera #Insects #Bugs #HabitatGardening #Brooklyn #NYC #MasterNaturalist #MacroPhotography #MacroMonday #NaturePhotography
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#DailySpiderPic: "Well, this is awkward…" An ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) crosses paths with a _Prenolepis imparis_ ant. Its disguise is meant to put off potential predators that won't mess with ants—but the ants themselves rely more on chemical cues and aren't fooled. I saw a couple of _Synageles_ on this planter and they both carefully avoided the ants.
#SpidersOfMastodon #JumpingSpiders #spiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae